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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Because the tech industry hasn’t had a real hit of it’s favorite poison “private equity” in too long.

    The industry has played the same playbook since at least 2006. Likely before, but that’s when I personally stated seeing it. My take is that they got addicted to the dotcom bubble and decided they can and should recreate the magic evey 3-5 years or so.

    This time it’s AI, last it was crypto, and we’ve had web 2.0, 3.0, and a few others I’m likely missing.

    But yeah, it’s sold like a panacea every time, when really it’s revolutionary for like a handful of tasks.
















  • Worse - easy way to set the settings then gaslight the user to say they asked for it that way.

    How much you wanna bet that it makes those changes in a way that is generally indistinguishable from as if it was done by the user’s own credentials? (Except save perhaps in recall’s own logs)


  • I appreciate the sentiment - in fact it’s been fun watching AI being integrated into home assistant by end users and being given full control, lots of incredibly interesting times.

    But not all AI is the same. Somehow I expect that Microsoft’s implementation will make it ridiculously easy to opt-in to Microsoft services and relaxed privacy settings, but will leave opting out as an exercise left to the user.